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Tuesday, 29 September 2015

We just LOVE this new little stamp, 'Christmas Lights' - what a cutie! A lovely stamp to sit and colour in and makes a happy little Christmas card, like Heidi's (above), using our Mini Scalloped Kraft Cards. Even better...this adorable stamp comes FREE when you buy issue 1 of our new LC magazine, available to buy online here. The magazine also feature three card projects with step by step instructions, some fab little Christmas papers and lots of great offers.

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made by Diane Williams

We love the addition of the jingly bell on Diane's card - you can buy bells here.

A BIG thank you to Natalie for sending us a photo of her 'Christmas Lights' card - she has used our Christmas Quilts paper too. Thanks Natalie, we're lovin' it!

To be in with a chance of winning a copy of our LC magazine and your FREE 'Christmas Lights' stamp, just tell us where you like to hang your fairy lights....Gill likes hers in her hallway (all year round), Carol has them in her kitchen and any window sill available and Steve.....well, he likes them draped around his Dinkies!!

Friday, 25 September 2015

Good morning everyone, Marianne here with today's project for you. I made several of these easel calendars last year and as people bought them at fairs thought it time to start making some more. The new toppers from Little Claire are the perfect size and the images are so pretty you would happily look at them all year long. These make a great present.

2 Fold the front of the card blank in half to form a mountain fold for the easel.

3 Cut a strip of contrasting paper 13.8cm x 5.5cm. Cut the bottom of the strip with the border punch. Attach to the 13.8cm square paper 8cm from the bottom.

4 Wrap a piece of lilac ribbon in top of this paper, fixing the ends underneath the lilac card. Attach the square to the bottom section of the card with the stripes going downwards.

5 Wrap a piece of lilac ribbon around the other piece of striped card attaching the ends underneath the lilac card. Attach to the front of the easel card blank.

6 Attach the small strip of patterned paper left from the border punching 1.5cm away from the punched border.

7 Mount the topper onto lilac card and attach to the front as shown. Glue three flowers either side of the topper. Attach the calendar tab level with the top of the punched paper so that it acts as a stopper for the easel.

I hope you enjoy making these. Please visit my blog for daily inspiration.

KT Fit Kitty who said: I love the silhouette cats on roof! I know exactly how I'll use them too! Purr-fect! Thank you so much!

Jennifer McCann who said: Wow!! The first to comment I could be lucky this time. My favourite is
the snowman with puppy. I have lots of friends who have dogs and my
grandchildren would love this piccy on their Chtistmas card. thank
you, Jennifer x

Well done ladies and thanks to everyone who entered, if your name is above, please contact carol with your details.

1. Gently remove one of the snowman and scottie images from the outline sticker sheet. I bend the sheet slightly to release one side of the image and then carefully peel away the rest using tweezers. Let the sticker 'rest' for a minute and then put it on your cutting mat, sticky side up. Use one of the lines on your cutting mat line up the sticker as shown below:

2. Cut a piece of white card which is larger than the panel you want to end up with and carefully place this over the sticker, lining the card up with another line on your cutting mat as shown in the photo below:

3, Your outline sticker will now be straight on the piece of card and you can trim it as required:

4. You can now colour the image and make it up in to a card. Outline stickers are perfect if you struggle with colouring stamped images because the lines of the stickers stop you going over the edges when you're colouring!

5. You will also notice that this sheet has some more detail on it. I haven't added all the smaller pieces but I have used the snow round the snowman. Personally I found the pieces of the stickers for the eyes of the snowman and dog a bit too small so I drew in these details with a black fine liner pen.

And here's another view of the card:

Next a very quick and easy card using the 'Silhouette Cats on Roof' sticker sheet - you can find them find them here on the Little Claire website.

1. Select the colour of paper from the Mini Falling Snow paper pack - the darker colours will work better here because of the Glitter Sparkle Sheet. Line up the sheet on one of the lines on your cutting mat and add the rooftoop, the reindeer and sleigh and a few stars.

2. Cut a piece of the Glitter Sparkle Sheet slight larger than the piece of paper from the Mini Falling Snow paper pack. Remove the backing paper and lay it on your cutting mat, sticky side facing up. Place the sheet of paper gently on the film and rub the back of it. Turn it over and rub the Sparkle Sheet over the outline stickers to make the design 'pop'.

3. Finish the card by adding a paper layer and then matting it on to a card blank. Add the outline sticker greeting on top of the Sparkle Sheet and you've complete the card.

I hope you enjoyed my project and it has inspired you to take a closer look at the Little Claire outline stickers here,

Just before I go, I want to let you know about some great stamp offers from Little Claire:

£12.99 stamp sets are now £8.00

£8.99 stamp sets are now £6.00

£5.50 stamps are now £4.00

‘Fantastic offer from Little Claire, we can’t be at the Ally Pally show this weekend so here is a great offer on all of our stamps which is available to everyone’

Thursday, 17 September 2015

Hello is`s Alli here and this is my digi stamp blog project. Its a card with a lot of ingredients and a big set of instructions but I have made all the embellishments and if you wanted to simplify things you could use bought embellishments from your stash. I have made this for a darling little girl who loves the film 101 Dalmations and I can`t wait to see her face when she opens it.

Cut the Nit Wit Pastel Dreams dark pink paper to mat and layer onto the base card but do not stick down.
Using a piece of Cut n Dry foam shade the edges of the pink paper with the Tim Holtz Picked Raspberry Distress Ink.
Stick the paper onto the 6" x 6" base card.

Go to the link Black and White Spotty Background Paper (which will take you to a page on my blog) and select the image and save the image to the pictures file on your computer.
Open the spotty background paper file in your graphics program and re size to 12.5cm x 12.5cm and print onto good quality mat print paper.
If the spots appear fuzzy go over them with a black fine tip pen to sharpen them up.
Cut the image down to 12.5cm x 12.5cm.
Stick the spotty paper onto the base card at a jaunty angle.

In your graphics program import the Little Claire Dalmation in Flowers digi stamp and re size it so that the grass at the bottom of the image measures 8cm from side to side.
Print the image onto good quality card.
Cut the image to size (8.5cm x 7.5cm).
Colour in the image with your choice of colouring in implements.
Mat and layer the coloured image onto pink card.
Stick the image topper onto the base card at jaunty angle.

Using the Little Claire Rebeccas Really Useful Female Stamp Set "Gran Daughter" and the Versa Fine black ink pad stamp the sentiment onto white card.
Cut the sentiment out using the Tattered Lace Essentials Circles Die No 5.
Tint the edges of the sentiment with the Tim Holts Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and apply using a piece of Cut n Dry foam.
Using a paint brush apply wet glue to the outside edge of the sentiment, sprinkle with Glamour Dust glitter, shake off the excess and allow to dry.
Stick the sentiment onto the base card.
Using the Tonic butterfly boot punch and a scrap of the Nit Wit Pastel Dreams dark pink paper punch out a butterfly.
Bend the butterfly wings back and stick onto the sentiment.

Using the Marianne Creatables Flower Die LR0110 cut one flower from white card.
Tint the flower using Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass Distress Ink on the outside of the petals and Tim Holtz Salty Ocean Distress Ink at the centre of the petals.
Shape the petals slightly.
Brush the flower with wet glue.
Sprinkle Glamour Dust glitter over the flower, shake off the excess and allow to dry.
Cut a circle of the Nit Wit Pastel Dreams dark pink paper and bevel it.
Stick the bevelled pink circle onto the centre of the flower (I always use glue gun when gluing onto glitter. With this centre I put a circle of glue around the middle of the flower to hold the bevelled pink centre and hen I was happy with the position I turned the flower over and through the hole in the centre I squeezed more hot glue to fill the void).
Stick the flower onto the card.

On a piece of white card stamp the Hobbycraft sentiment using the Versa Fine black ink pad.
Cut the sentiment to size.
Mat and layer the sentiment onto black card.
Stick the sentiment onto the base card.

Using the Joy Crafts Floral Flourishes Leaves Die 6003 0001 cut out both leaves.
Using the Cut n Dry foam and the Tim Holts Distress Inks Shabby Shutters, Mowed Lawn and Evergreen Bough colour in the leaves.
Shape the leaves and stick onto the base card but remember to place the stalks of the leaves under the flower petals.

Punch out 3 dots from black card using the ring binder hole punch.
Bevel the dots and stick to the top right of the card.

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

'Magic in a Packet' is what Steve calls this stuff, just either stamp your image (or stick down a peel off) then once coloured-in, place a piece of this glitter film over the top for a beautiful, all over, mess free glittery effect - gorgeous! We can't speak highly enough of this stuff.

So, to get you stocked up for Christmas, this is a super offer; 3 packs for the price of two, that's just £9.00 (would cost £13.50) Grab your bargain here

We think that our LC Stickers really are fabulous, great for quick and easy cards and they look so professional too!

COMPETITION

Would you like to try these new beauties for yourself? You know the format by now - please leave us a comment letting us know which of these new designs is you favourite and we will choose 4 lucky winners to each receive their favourite sticker, next Monday 21 September.

Monday, 14 September 2015

...we only had a set amount of the new dies at the great price and we have been kept busy all day taking orders (thank you) they have now all been sold.

Whilst writing, Steve would like us to say a BIG thank you to everyone who visited his stand at the National Motorbike Museum (it is crafts, not motorbikes!) in Birmingham last Saturday, it was a great day - if you missed out on this show (super venue, right by NEC BUT it has FREE parking and lots of great stands) the next show at this venue is Saturday 05 December.

This Saturday 19 Sept., Steve will be at the Ross Papercrafts Show in Meadowbank Sports Centre, Edinburgh.

This die set should retail for at least £8.99 but we have a small amount for the fabulous price of £5.50 only while stocks last here

Competition Winners: Thank you so much to everyone who left a comment regarding our new 'Irresistible Images' packs post from last Monday, as promised, we have randomly drawn 4 lucky winners who will each receive their chosen pack of 'Irresistible Images'...

Claire Boston who said: It is so difficult to pick a favourite, they are all a bit of
loveliness!! But I think I would have to choose the Floral, handy for
any occasionThanks for the giveaway

Hazel who said: Great images! My favourite is Silhouettes, I love monochrome cards. They
are traditional & suit any age group. Thanks for a chance to win.Hazel P x

Kath who said: These are all lovely but the Silhouettes are my favourite.Kath x

Jane who said: How sweet and lovely they are...the snowmen are my faves xx

Friday, 11 September 2015

Hello, Heidi here to share another blog project with you, using one of the many stamps from the Little Claire range.

I have chosen to use 'Butterfly Blossoms', a beautiful floral image with two butterflies. It is an image I haven't used for a while and a couple of days ago, I saw two butterflies similar to the ones in the image, on my buddlia bushes in the garden. I am not sure of their names, but they were really graceful, flitting everywhere before they flew away. They inspired me to find this stamp and ink it up!

I have used the wonderful 'Little Claire' - 'Ombre' papers behind the images and have added glossy accents to the flowers and butterflies.

Thursday, 10 September 2015

Look at this lovely image - digi Three Ships - perfect for the current digi Challenge here at Little Claire - Christmas

Today I decided to make an easel card...you will find more details on my blog here

Instructions

Take a square card blank and an extra square of card the same size as the blank. Fold one side of the card up to the centre fold. The other side becomes the base and the folded piece the easel. Stick the extra card to this. I used card pre-embossed with a gift motif.

Decorate the image - I used just two Promarkers - Powder Blue and yellow. Having trimmed this to size, I distressed the edges with Powder blue and matted it on torn blue DP from my stash, also distressed with Powder Blue.

Make a stand for the easel - I used more white card and torn blue DP. I hand wrote my sentiment and added buttons threaded on some hairy yarn.

Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Hi everyone, we are celebrating today because the 2 new TV Craft Channels have been in touch to say that they want our products - WOW!
(Steve's really excited)....which one should we choose to go with?

Would YOU like some of our stamps???

Call us TODAY before 12.30pm - Buy 1 Stamp and GET ANOTHER STAMP FREE!!!Subject to stock and the free stamp is of an equal or less value to stamp purchased)

Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Good morning...and what a lovely morning here at Little Claire now that the fog is lifting. Following the launch of our new Irresistible Images, we thought we should show you some of Helen's scrummy samples made with a selection of the designs available. We LOVE this snowman card(above), using one of the six designs from the Snowman pack - there are three of each design in each pack. Helen has mounted the image on a paper from our Quirky Quilts paper pack - no colouring involved, all the work is done for you!

This lovely card features one of the images from the Silhouette pack, mounted on to a sheet of Ombre paper.

Add embellishments to the images as Helen has done with her cards, just a few carefully placed gems in the corner adds a bit of sparkle to this lovely card made with one of the images from the Floral pack, mounted on to Pastel Tartan paper.

Just a few ideas to inspire you, please let us know what you think of our Irresistible Images and don't forget to enter our competition to win your favourite pack (see yesterday's blog post)!

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Inspiring blog...

Welcome!

Hello fellow cardmakers and welcome to my blog! We are LC Designs. I'll be adding all my new designs with the team to give everyone a few ideas but would really, really, love to see everyone's examples to share with us all and enjoy, just email us at info@mylcdesigns.co.uk with your pics!

We have a monthly challenge with the chance to win great prizes and lots of other competitions and giveaways too! Plus we'll be sharing lots of inspiration with you using all of our products. We'd love to hear your feedback so please leave us a comment! Love the LC Designs team.xx